One would think the US consumer would boycott the 5 and Dime too...
Not from the low wages but from the fact Wal*Mart commissioned super cargo ships years ago to bring Made In China to America.
One super cargo ship pollutes as much as 50 million cars each year.
Wal*Mart has its Global Procurement Office in China.
Wal*Mart puts less than 5% foreign in all its stores in China.
But no one is saying a word in America's socialist media...

WHY?

1:42 pm January 30, 2014

madmilker wrote:

thank you for reading your twitter page. God Bless

2:53 pm January 30, 2014

zante wrote:

If the media were socialist, why would they be keeping quiet about the actions of a large capitalist company? Your comment, madmilker, does not make sense.

2:54 pm January 30, 2014

Rael Valdez wrote:

Madmilker: I'm trying to understand your post. Yes, Chinese goods are not good to buy. And Walmart sells almost entirely Chinese goods.

Why do you think our country's media is socialist? Doesn't U.S. media run Walmart ads? Doesn't Rupert Murdoch own most of the TV conglomerates?

What are you trying to argue about?

3:45 pm January 30, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

Walmart pay is not horrible, but it isn't going to make you rich either.
Its ok pay for no major skills/education req'd
its the way they treat their employees i dislike, years ago employees were treated well no your just an employee #

3:57 pm January 30, 2014

william white wrote:

i work at the bonsac walmart in roanoke va for about 13 years our store manager and shift managers are very fair and asfar as pay you have to work for it and like everything else it takes time.

4:04 pm January 30, 2014

Barbara Ann wrote:

Walmart is a great corporation and you can work your way up to CEO as evidenced by Mr. McMillion who started out working in a warehouse. Also, Kevin Turner who is in the running for ceo of MSFT also started at Walmart as a cashier and worked his way up and was head of Sam's Club and then MSFT lured hin away with a signing bonus of $8 million. Walmart has great opportunities. It looks like all you have to do is work hard and advance.

4:07 pm January 30, 2014

Barbara Ann wrote:

Also, that letter is such a farce. It is union orchestrated, planned and paid for. The union is slowly dying and they need to try to make a stand. They manage to talk a few people into protesting and paying their way while they take long trips to the home office to protest, etc. But, if you notice, there aren't many REAL Walmart employees that are protesting. They are union people with a sprinkling of a few Walmart employees.

4:41 pm January 30, 2014

Anne wrote:

For those of you who think this is a farce and accusing the Union of intervening; I worked at Wal-mart and worked hard. Our checks were often wrong to Walmart's benefit. I still know people who work at Walmart who cannot survive on their meager salary. They are not given enough hours and when one Walmart in the same district as our store did not reach their sale goals, our store hours were cut to make up the difference.

4:51 pm January 30, 2014

Terry wrote:

Anyone who understands retail will know that you are going to have hours cut during slower seasons of the year. This is happening in every retail store in the world. Nobody is complaining about other stores cutting hours. Wal Mart is the largest and so it gets all the bad publicity. Also retail does not pay well until you work up to management. It takes time and hard work. I have worked at Wal Mart and would do so again.

5:43 pm January 30, 2014

Pamd wrote:

@Barbara Ann, the signatures on the letter, 3 of those people are CURRENT employees at Walmarts across the nation. Get a 'fact-checker' if in doubt.

6:00 pm January 30, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

for all of you defending Wal-Mart...please answer this 1 question why don't they hire a full time crew instead of a bunch of part time employees..guess health care really would hurt their pocket but hey you managers are full time and receive health care so of course you have nothing to bitch about you once were where they are living on welfare don't forget how it felt at least these guys are taken a stand instead of being CEO's door matt. And nobody should have to be miss treated and under paid.. Wal-Mart employees deserve a decent pay and health care..don't be hating on the ones who are taking a stand for whats right and your old ass when you was young was to scared to... So you still kissing the CEO ASS.. WAL-MART SUCKS HOPE THEY DECIDE TO TAKE A HIKE TO CHINA I SURE AS HELL WON'T MISS THEM...

6:27 pm January 30, 2014

todd kleinert wrote:

Lies. Lies. Lies. How about giving a FAIR wage, not the bare minimum. Base the pay on prior experience, or even based on customer satisfaction.

8:32 pm January 30, 2014

madmilker wrote:

[.....'zante wrote :
If the media were socialist, why would they be keeping quiet about the actions of a large capitalist company? Your comment, madmilker, does not make sense.".....]

WELL...

You need to understand the facts.

1975 was the last year America had a trade surplus and the US Government had a mere $533 billion total debt on the shoulders of We the People.

Retail makes NOTHING.....it only moves a countries currency.

Wal*Mart didn't have its Global Procurement Office in China in 1975..

the year Jimmy Hoffa disappeared...

the year Sam Walton went to Korea...

the year Social Security got pegged to inflation...

the year President Ford sent GHW Bush to China...

are you still following...?

Now, what is it that a socialist state does best...

takes and gives...

Well, there where not 48 million Americans on food stamps in 1975...

there where not 20 million Americans unemployed in 1975...

there were not 60% "LESS" manufacturing in 1975...

there where not foreign countries holding over $5.6 trillion US dollars...

there where not corporations from America holding over $3 trillion in offshore bank accounts

and it sure as sh!! wasn't over $9 trillion stuffed down a dang gopher hole inside the Pentagon...

Are you still here?

Wal*Mart commissioned super cargo ships to bring Made In China to America and the first one was delivered in 2006....the same year Wal*Mart partnered with a billionaire from Hong Kong on a port in Mexico...

It is said that one super cargo ship pollutes as much as 50 million cars each year...

One ship pollutes as much as 50 million cars each year...

There be about 800 cars on earth today...

Do you know the total number super cargo ships Wal*Mart had commissioned?

Did you know the Walton's own First Solar...

Do you think a solar panel on every building on God's green earth is gonna do any good at cleaning the environment while people like Al Gore and David Blood preach to the world about Global Warming and Carbon Credits....all the while a bunch of super cargo ships pollute and Indians in India pedaling bamboo treadle pumps watering their crops earning "one" carbon credit each year to sell to those that pollute.

Do you know it cost all American taxpayers over $9 billion a year to clean ballast tanks of ships..

Are you since here?

Now...why do you think the America media doesn't write about all that...

Do you know when Buffett bought his Choo Choo..?

Do you know who owns the media?

Do you know the real reason Keystone hasn't been built.?

Well, why don't you ask the ones that own the media.

and by the way...

President Johnson took the US Government from "Off-Budget" to "On-Budget" seven years before America had its last trade surplus....

and America has been in debt since 1790...

not from a Republican nor a Democrat party

but from the ignorance of We the People.

Goodnight and God Bless.

8:36 pm January 30, 2014

madmilker wrote:

oops! forgive me Lord, this O'fart made a Boo! Boo!

that be about 800 million automobiles on earth today...

sorry about that but there are times this O'fart's fingers don't type what I'm thinking...

8:40 pm January 30, 2014

David wrote:

Mr Madmilker, hopefully you meant 800 million automobiles not 800.

8:53 pm January 30, 2014

madmilker wrote:

Yes David on the about 800 million cars and like this O'fart stated above I don't think and type with all the words coming out right. All those "where"'s should be the word were and having a third grade book learning most of the time makes my sentences look like a crossword puzzle in my local paper....

but I do love my country and the Made In America label...

it's just sad that most Americans truly think that if they purchase so-call cheaper foreign they will become wealthier not knowing all the hard earn dollars they earn are going to foreigners.

Trade with the world has to be free...

but it also has to be fair.

The US Government has known since 1975 that has not been true.

God Bless

10:08 pm January 30, 2014

Heidi wrote:

Working for retail has never been a high paying job because it is a low skill job. For most people it is an entry level job. Some stay and can work up into high paying jobs in management, but you have to WORK. You can't take off on a whim. I can't get over the amount of people who think just because you breathe air, you are worth a lot of money per hour. Did all the people who work at Walmart train themselves in some skill, or did they get an education of some sort? I think not. I think just because they breathe air, they fell they should be paid a lot more. Well, there are lots of other jobs out there for low skill that aren't nearly as pleasant. They could be holding up a highway sign for the work crew that says "Slow or stop", or they could be the trash collectors (and I do appreciate them a lot) but retail, unfortunately is not a skill job. My theory is, graduate from high school, go to college OR train yourself in some skill. But don't find fault with a company that hires you because they don't pay more.They are paying you what you are worth because that is what the other retailers are paying.

11:27 pm January 30, 2014

Isidis wrote:

Heidi,

My first job was in retail. At that time, the department store where I worked had two different types of sales associates: young low-wage people like me who were enjoying their first job and a large bulk of highly paid professional salespeople. These folks worked in the "high end" departments like cosmetics; men's suits; furs; fine jewelry and furniture. They were well paid, enjoyed benefits and also earned commission. They were paid what they were worth and customers appreciated professional people who could help them make purchases.

thanks to the "walmartization" of the retail industry, such people are now gone in fact, 90% of the mid to high end department stores are gone. The American manufacturing jobs which fed the old stores are gone as well - thanks to Wallmart. Wallmart has systematically destroyed a good deal of our economy - by underpaying their workers and by insisting on selling low end crap made in other countries by virtual slave labor.

You can decry how Wallmart associates aren't worth decent pay - but maybe one day your job - or the job of someone you love -will be lost to Wallmart's greedy practices.

11:48 pm January 30, 2014

sipho ka hlophe wrote:

I think the new CEO will work in a way that will benefit those who are oppressed earning far too less than a living wage(Doug the moment is yours seize it build a better future for americans restore their dignity as a most trusted man who who like to see his children achieving better goals as they are your employees.don't think you would like to read or see on the newspapers that,how indecent or cruel are your associates being treated as the outside world is watching with an eagle eye,I wish u good in your new appointment and hope you gonna work harmoniously with your associates.

3:17 am January 31, 2014

Pat, Federal Way, Wa. wrote:

Barbara Ann--I've been with Walmart going on 15 years==and I have participated in the strikes, and believe me when I tell you , WAY MORE than the majority of the strikers are Walmart associates--only a very very few are "our Walmart" PLEASE don't talk about stuff you know NOTHING about

3:22 am January 31, 2014

Pat, Federal Way, Wa. wrote:

Heidi, your ignorance is showing BIGTIME!!! How can you write something like that and expect people to think you are educated at all.. Your not even worth answering, because your comments were totally off the wall, but I wated to tell you what everyone else is thinking...get off the drugs, you're living in lala land'

8:47 am January 31, 2014

Another Anonymous wrote:

Hey Heidi just thought you might like to know starting wage for most trash collectors is $8.00 per hour higher than the starting wage at w.m. and believe it or not most of those work full time schedules and are given health insurance hmmmm!!! also I worked as one of those slow/stop sign holders my STARTING wage was $18.00 per hour. I also have worked for w.m. and was told in a closed door meeting by a w.m. manager that INTIMIDATION and keeping people in FEAR of losing their employment is the only way to get production from them.

9:09 am January 31, 2014

Frogray wrote:

I hope the new CEO will see fit to pay his employees a living wage, with 40 hour work weeks.

9:20 am January 31, 2014

conniemae wrote:

It is through people like you, Walmart challengers, that megacorps will be brought to heel....and boy do they need this. Not only for sane business practices, but for their immortal souls. " Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of these, ye have done it unto me." To quote a bigger than life person. Persevere!

10:55 am January 31, 2014

another anonymous wrote:

Also some of you may disagree I.M.O. when Mr. Sam passed the Integrity of the Company went with him.

11:01 am January 31, 2014

Keith Augusto wrote:

let them start cutting jobs...As is IF YOU CAN HAVE A MONOPOLY WE CAN GO UNION!!!!

12:31 pm January 31, 2014

chachi wrote:

If he does not do anything then we will be forced to buy a strong rope from Costco for a special CEO party.

2:41 pm January 31, 2014

Justice4PortDrivers wrote:

Port truck drivers, who transport the goods Americans need, support Wal-Mart workers in their fight for fair pay and treatment. We too are in a national struggle to improve working conditions and fight unlawful retaliation against workers. All of us who work in the American supply chain are typically mistreated even though we keep the economy and flow of goods alive. We haul cargo for Wal-Mart and other Big Box retailers. Most port drivers are unlawfully misclassified as "independent contractors" so companies can illegally deduct from their paychecks and deny pay for time worked. Port drivers and working people across the country are united to win justice on the job. Follow @PortDriverUnion

7:32 pm January 31, 2014

Eve W. wrote:

I agree with another anonymous...what they are starting people's pay in 2014...was my starting salary with Wal-Mart in 1994...we didn't stay open 24 hrs and all the major holidays were respected...they gave us a pension plan that they contributed to and we could invest more in ourselves, we could buy stock (which they contributed to as well)...and we were considered owners in the company as well...that all began to change when Mr. Walton died...it isn't him...it's the greedy heirs.

8:02 pm January 31, 2014

Dame Frank wrote:

If there is reincarnation (whether we believe it or not), there is a chance that a CEO may someday be a poor, starving youngster in a third world country slowly dying of starvation. How to end poverty? Balance the scales. Can't be born into poverty if it doesn't exist!

1:56 am February 8, 2014

Low Lifes wrote:

People with inadequate skill sets dont deserve the kind of money im making. If some stupid greeter or cashier starts making as much money as im making in the tech industry, They better raise my pay too.

7:08 pm February 10, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

Obviously, Low Lifes is not educated in life. If he/she was, she/he wouldn't feel the need to call greeters of cashiers 'stupid'. Name calling is a sign of immaturity. Because of the economy, many greeters and cashiers have college education behind them, as do many other Walmart Associates. Tell me, Low Lifes, were you bullied as a child?

7:12 pm February 10, 2014

Aubretia Edick wrote:

Obviously, Low Lifes is not educated in life. If he/she was, she/he wouldn’t feel the need to call greeters of cashiers ‘stupid’. Name calling is a sign of immaturity. Because of the economy, many greeters and cashiers have college education behind them, as do many other Walmart Associates. Tell me, Low Lifes, were you bullied as a child?

8:27 am February 11, 2014

another anonymous wrote:

Hey (low lifes) for all of your "intelligence" you have clearly missed the point of this exercise. it is not only about the pay, but fair treatment as well. Also these walmart workers are only asking for $ 11.00 per hour if the TECH industry doesn't pay more than that you may want to refine your adequate skill set.

9:24 am June 27, 2014

mr.notwalmart wrote:

yalll wonder why so much crimes happens cause of jobs like this where you work 7 jobs and 1 and their whole system is unorganized

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